Helpful Score: 4
This book is one of Susan Isaacs best. Many of us can relate to the feeling of wanting to set things right in our past. The heroine, who is fired from the CIA fifteen years earlier, sets out to find the answers to her unresolved past. The book is fast paced and a good read for those who like cozy mysteries.
Helpful Score: 2
If you have never read any of Susan Isaacs' novels, you have a wonderful surprise in store for you. Her novels are like the fantasies that many of us--literate mothers and wives with jobs and responsibilities--have had all our adult lives. Her heroines are women pulled out of their ordinary routine to investigate a murder that has occurred and threatens their families or themselves. Isaacs' books are filled with humor and excitement.
_Past Perfect_, on the NY Times best-seller list in 2007, is an example in kind of Susan Isaacs' work. It tells the story of Katie Schottland, a writer for a cable TV show with a veterinarian husband and son going off to summer camp. A work friend she hasn't seen in fifteen years suddenly calls her up, desperate to meet with her, then disappears on her way their meeting. Katie feels compelled to investigate.
This book is great fun and great beach reading, even if you are staying home.
_Past Perfect_, on the NY Times best-seller list in 2007, is an example in kind of Susan Isaacs' work. It tells the story of Katie Schottland, a writer for a cable TV show with a veterinarian husband and son going off to summer camp. A work friend she hasn't seen in fifteen years suddenly calls her up, desperate to meet with her, then disappears on her way their meeting. Katie feels compelled to investigate.
This book is great fun and great beach reading, even if you are staying home.
Helpful Score: 1
Though Katie seems to have her life in order, she still dwells on being abruptly fired from the CIA with no apparent reason. Fifteen years later, she is asked to help a former colleague who promises to give Katie the answers she seeks, if Katie will help her. A page- turner which reverbrates with female gutsiness.
Fun, easy read.
I had never heard of this author before, but thought it looked interesting and it was. A good who-done-it book with lots of twists and turns. I enjoyed it.
Who doesn't sometimes obsess over past injustices? That should have made Katie more relatable for me, but I just couldn't get into this book. There wasn't enough humor for it to be humorous, not enough spy stuff to be a thriller, not enough relationships to be romance, not enough mystery to be a mystery, and I didn't like Katie enough to care if she found out why she was fired or not. I did like all the people who told Katie why it mattered to her so much, and she's "oh yeah but..." All IMHO of course.
